The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-26

ticed him Monday night ard apprehended he
would have spell of sickness unless he got him
out of the weather and excitement DR.. Harri
sons wife has been at the institute since
Wednesday of last week. The Superintendent.
answering An interrogatory put by General
Grose, said he supposed DR.. Harrison has spent,
prior to this sickness. twelve nights at the inst
tute in twelve months, and probably fifteen or
twenty days
Lynn Vinton testified to having been fire.
quent visitor to the Hospital for the Insane
| from the fact that he was personal friend of
Dr. Fletcher.
| Q-What has DR.. Fletcher said to you about being
hampered!
A-As I can state in language, he said that
the appointments controlled by the board that
| the appointments suggested to him. and he for
maly nominated person. but that he requested
to do SO by Harrison and members of the board for
certain persons they wished to have appointed. He
stated he had rejected goods, and they had
back; that he had nothing to do with the purchases:
that they were made by the board, and were such
that he had ceased to attend the board meetings at
all. DIR. Fletcher desired to purchase better class
of supplies but his request was not followed.
Q.-Has not Dr. Fletcher stated to you more than
once that there hope for the institution while
Dr. Harrison was at the head of the boardi
| to mean that much
| Q.-Didn't he say that to you more than year
A.-Yes. sir.
| Allen NJ. Fletcher. president of the Indian
apolis Gas Company, testified to an acquaint-
ance OF more than ten years with Henry Stacey,
| and that Stacey had been for that time and
longer superintendent and engineer of the gas
| works
Thomas Markey. founGrvman, was placed on
the stand. His testimony was unimportant.
| Frederic Berner. of the firm of Hetherngton
& Berner, was brief witness. He said he was
not boiler-maker. but machinist The iron
| ordered for the boilers was ordered as 90, 900
tensile strength 1t was not tested as to strength
| the guarantee of the mills being taken.
| Edward Cain, an under engineer at the Hos
" a wit " n knew
| considerable about steam. but under examina-
ton appeared to know little about the tensile
| strength of iron.
Maud Delano of the general dining. room de-
was of opinion that the food generally
| good, but the butter was sometimes a little
strong She volunteered the statement that she
was a Democrat, and acted AS If she would stand
by the trustees till the ship went down.
Leopold Krauss testified that he had sold prod
uce to the hospital. He remembered that one
lot of butter was strong, and that 500 or 800
pounds of it refused. He couldn't distinctly
remember whether in the famous cabbage con-
tract 1t was cents pound or 3 cents a head
He thought it was cents head.
Thomas Forest supervisor at Insane Hospital,
mems department, was the next witness Mr.
Forest thought everything about the hospital
was in every way excellent and not to be i'm
proved upon. He slipped up on the butter how
ever, and acknowledged that might be better.
Odd you belong to political club in 1881
CIT was known the Athon clubi
Ayes, SIR
Q,-You went to Shelbyvillea
A.-Yes, sir
l. Q.-How many attendants wenta
A-Not over twenty attendants think; sixty per-
went altogether employees of the asylum. About
the same number went with the club to Martnsville.
Q.;-Have you paid any. political assessments since
you have been there. and how muchs
Al could not tell how much.
Q.-To whom have you padl
A.-Paid to the central committee; may have given
| something to Mr. Hall.
Q.-Have you not made collections YOURSELF
A.! had subscription paper in my Office in the
Q.-Was that paper circulated among the attend
an IS yon have under your controll
A.-Yes sir. majority of them contributed
Q.-How many attendants have you under you as
SUPERVISOR
A.-Fifty three would be the average now; in 1854
Q.-Whst did you do with the money you collected
Al turned it over to Mr.. FrenzeL
GA Democratic politician. Who told you to turn
| it over to Frenzel!
Al turned it to him and Mr.. Coy jointly
| Odd DIR. Harrison tell you7
| A.-No. sir; was asked to do it by Mr.. Coy.
don't know whether Frenzel was present not
There was considerable squirming among the
Democrats present as these interrogations were
put by Mr.. Grifiths but General Crosse said
1--WE want to show that the demand for the mon
ey sprung from Sim Coy and the Whisky
League; the witness here was collect it from
these attendants paid by the State and the
money put into political organization"
At the evening session DR.. Ryer testified that
J he had charge of twelve wards at the Hospital
for the Insane. He had frequently bad
butter, SO bad that it could not be eaten. He
contributed $50 TO the last Democratic campaign
fund He testified that the employees and off
GERS took great deal of interest in State and
} county politics, including the Bynum-B Bailey
squabble
Thomas Stewart, engineer at the hospital,
testified that six of the new boilers have been
patched since they were received and some of
} the patches were twelve inches square. The
patches were put on because they were re-
quired.
John A. Perkins former employe Of the
hospital. now a mail carrier of this city, testi
fed to several droves of hogs at the hospital hav
ing cholera Hall, the steward, once ruined q
horse by driving him to Lebanon and giving him
, cold water while overheated. The horse was
worth $3.50 $l75. The witness afterward
bought him for So. The Witness sold lot OF
. barrels belonging to the hospital for $64 90 an6
handed the money to Hall. Two or three
. months afterward he heard complaints that the
: money had not been turned over. The witness
: had Mr.. Wilhelm a witness that he had giver
the money to Hall. He did not hear how the
matter concluded
Albert B9hm, formerly an attendant at thu
Q hospital. told of ill-treatment of patients aDt
gave the names of attendants McFadin ani
Mannix as the offenders.
]. p Schiltges, a witness with a patent fol-
o cleaning boilers. testified. He said he wa
present when some of the boilers of the Hos
pital.for the Insane were tested at Hetheringtor
0 ~ BernerS shop. 1t with water pressure
a The boilers showed over one hundred pressure
Q He didn't know exactly how much The witnes
t said Neilan, the foreman, said that was as much
n as 1876 or lao pounds of steam. On cross exam
9 ination the witness said before getting tn
q boiler-cleaning patent he had been agent for
4 brewery. but that he was stone-cutter b.
i trade and knew nothing about pressure to the
Q square inch tensile strength of iron.
Bartholomew Landers, who helped to max
the new boilers for the Insane Hospital, test
j. fed that he saw all but two tested. 1t
J. cod-water test. and the pressure indicated fror
t 100 and 112 up to l25 pounds. He said STAGE
| was never prevented from looking at the boilers
| In the test q streain came out through plate